Within the Basilica di Santa Pudenziana, a late sixteenth–early seventeenth century oil painting by Rossetti depicts the sisters Pudenziana (Pudentiana) and Prassedes (Praxedes) cleaning martyrs’ bodies in preparation for burial. In the background bodies are piled beneath execution structures. Others carry a body toward the sisters for cleansing and on the left, a cave is being used to bury the dead. In the foreground a jar filled with blood is seen, with the sister on the right uses a sponge to clean and collect the martyr’s blood. Cherubim are seen watching over the scene. The central cherubin extends wreaths of flowers over the sisters’ heads.